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A. N. HADLEY.

SHOCK FORMING TABLE FOR CORN HARVESTERS. No. 899,988. Patented Mar. 19,1889.

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ARTEMUS N. HADLEY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

SHOCK-FORMING TABLE FOR CORN-HARVESTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,988, dated March19, 1889.

Application filed October 8, 1888. Serial No. 287,476. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTEMUS N. HADLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corn-Harvesters, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the shock-forming mechanism ofthat class of corn-harvesters in which the stalks, after be ing out, areconducted in a vertical position to a support in the rear of thecutters, where they are formed into shocks before being discharged.

The object of my improvement is to pro vide a rotary table on which thestalks may be discharged in a vertical position as they come from thecutters and means whereby the stalks are temporarily supported on saidtable during the formation of a shock thereon, as hereinafter fullydescribed.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 represents a plan showing a part of the harvester-nlatforin,the rotary table, and its driving mechanism. Fig. 2 represents a rearelevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents a front elevation. Fig. 4:represents a central transverse section of the shock-table. Fig. 5represents a side elevation of one of the shock-supports.

A is a driving-shaft, which is mounted in suitable bearings 011 the mainframe 13 and is rotated by means of one of the carryingwheels (notshown) on which the main frame is mounted in the manner common and wellknown in this class of machines.

0 and D are bevel gear-wheels, which are secured 011 shaft A andoperateto drive a pair of rotary cutters, E E.

F is a circular table mounted on the main frame so as to rotate thereonin a horizontal plane. Table F is rotated by means of a gear-wheel, G,which is secured to the under side of the table, or on the same shafttherewith, a screw, H, which intermeshes with said gear-wheel, a shaft,I, having a universal joint, J, and carrying the screw H, and a bevelgear-wheel, K, and either one of a pair of bevel gear-wheels, L and M,mounted 011 shaft A, so

as to turn therewith. Shaft I is mounted in sliding bearings O and P onthe under side of the main frame, which bearings are controlled,respectively, by levers Q ancLR and connecting-rods T and S, the purposeof lever Q being to throw screw H into or out of engagement withgear-wheel G, so that the table F may be turned by hand when desired,and the purpose of lever B being to throw gearwheel K into or out ofengagement with either of the gear-wheels L and M, thereby stopping orreversing the direction of the rotation of table F.

For the purpose of supporting the cut stalks in a vertical position onthe table during the formation of the shock, I mount on the table a pairof bent standards, a and '0. The lower ends of said standards aredetachably secured to the table by inserting them in mortises cut in thetable, and their upper ends are bent substantially at right angles, toform horizontal arms :20 and to, which extend above and across the tableat right angles to each other. Arms and a: are bent at the point wherethey intersect, to form oppositely turned loops .2 and g which interlockand operate to hold the arms, when in position, in a fixed relation toeach other.

1 and 2 are guide-bars mounted on the main frame B, so as to form apassage which guides the stalks from the cutters to the table F. The cutstalks are propelled along said passage by the centrifugal forceresulting from the rotating movement of the cutters on which the buttsof the stalks rest.

The operation of my device is as follows: Geanwheel K having beenengaged with gearwheel L, and screw ll being in engagement withgear-wheel G, table F is slowly rotated. The cut stalks are thrownbackward against and are upheld by the arms and aat their intersection.The shock is thus built up around the central support furnished by theintersecting arms to and 90, the operator keeping the table F rotatingin the direction first started, or reversing the direction of rotationby shifting gear-wheel K from wheel L to wheel M, or allowing the tableto stand still for a short time by holding wheel K out of engagement, asmay be necessary to the symmetrical formation of the shock. When thebuilding of the shock has been completed,

screw H is thrown out of engagement with wheel G, thus leaving the tablefree to be rotated by hand. The shock is now bound below the arms w andx, which are then lifted, with their standards, out of the shock and themortises in the table, and the shock is slipped off the table.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the main frame and thecutters of a coi'neharvester, of a turntable mounted on the main frameat the rear of the cutters and arranged to receive the cut stalkstherefrom, and a support for the stalks mounted on said turn-table, soas to rotate therewith and adapted to sustain the stalks in an uprightposition.

2. The combination, with the main frame, the driving-shaft, and thecutters of a cornharvester, of a circular table mounted on the mainframe at the rear of the cutters and arranged to receive the cut stalkstherefrom, a support for the stalks mounted on said table, so as torotate therewith, and intermediate connecting mechanism connecting thetable and the driving-shaft, whereby the table is rotated, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a corn-harvester, the combination, with the rotating tablearranged to receive the cut stalks, of a pair of intersecting armsextending horizontally across the table and detachably supported thereonabove its surface, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a corn-harvester, the combination of 35 the rotating table and thepair of bent standards mounted thereon and having each a horizontal arm,said arms being arranged to intersect above the center of the table andto interlock at the point of intersection, all sub- 40 V. M. Hoon, H. P.H001).

